this paper introduces the general framework of a new system for material flow planning and operations and some of its important aspects. the justification for the new system stems from the short coming of mrp  i/mrp ii in term of its assumptions, particularly in relation to fixed lead times and effectively infinite production capacity. at the heart of the system is an automatic scheduler based ...

Planning and scheduling are areas attracting an unceasing attention of computer science community. However, despite of their similar character, planning and scheduling problems are usually handled independently using different methods and technologies. While Artificial Intelligence technology is more relevant for planning problems, Operations Research has a long tradition in studying scheduling...

in this paper an efficient three- stage algorithm is developed for software production cost and time estimation. first stage includes a hybrid model composed of cocomo and function points methods to increase estimation accuracy. second stage encompasses paired comparisons matrix of analytical hierarchy process to determine amount of any resources consumed in each step of software production by ...

This chapter addresses three main problems of the production planning area: Single Machine Scheduling (SMS), Parallel Machine Scheduling (PMS) and Flowshop Scheduling (FS). Many situations in production environments found in industries around the world can be modelled as one or a set of them (Baker 1974). It is easy to find dozens of problem variants in the literature due to different productio...